4/15/2013

Last year I had the privilege of helping young apprentices from Livity Advantage respond to a digital brief from Penguin Books. Check it out below:

I'm happy to say the young team blew Penguin (and myself) away (see the highlights below), and are just beginning their 12-month placements with big-name employers; over this period will complete their marketing apprenticeships, putting their new skills and Google insight into practice.

The Livity Advantage Programme

Livity Advantage is an exclusive pre-apprenticeship and apprenticeship programme, in partnership with Google to equip young people (non-graduates from an opportunity-poor background) with highly sought-after digital skills and industry expertise.
The ‘Advantagers’ are given access to exclusive Google tools, Google tutorials and leading marketing and advertising sector guest speakers and mentors..

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I am a journalist and digital media/content editor/manager based in London, the former digital content editor of Ctrl.Alt.Shift (Christian Aid's youth political and social issue magazine), former senior content and community manager for Livity (working specifically on Spinebreakers, somewhereto_ and Live Mag UK) - currently working as digital media manager at Excellent Development (a charity supporting communities in countries such as Kenya, India, Mozambique and Zimbabwe to transform their lives with sand dams). In the past I have freelanced for the likes of RWD, the Guardian, The Independent, MTV Staying Alive (and others). I have also been a part-time mentor for young writers at Interact Magazine, an advisor in the ‘Platforma Arts and Refugees Network’ London hub, a mentor for Channel 4's Battlefront campaigners, and one of the directors of the Youth-led Media Network (now the Youth Media Agency). In 2011, I was a London360 blogger for Media Trust's Community Channel, represented as a social reporter at the 2011 London Youth Policy Symposium, and was on the drafting committee representing as a delegate at the UNAIDS Youth Summit On HIV in Mali. On my travels, I have provided global and social news reports from the DRCongo to Vancouver. Currently I am also a trustee for the Youth Media Agency, and adviser for SetOff Magazine.